The Projecting Brain
© Copyright 2013 by Ralph E Kenyon Jr
General Semanticists have long known that "The brain is an organ that
locates its experiences elsewhere." We feel body parts outside the
brain. We hear near to far -- all outside the brain. We see way out
there -- way outside the brain. All of these experiences are
neurological processes going on inside the brain. We dream - and
experience events that the brain places outside itself. We hallucinate
at times - with brain activity projected outside of itself. Moving our
point-of-view outside the brain is a simple adaptation of the normal
projection function of the brain. The movie running in the projector is
projected outside itself onto the two dimensional screen far from the
projector. The brain doesn't have a screen or a light beam, so it
projects "virtual" light onto a "virtual" screen in three dimensions
ranging from inside the body to as far as the stars we see. The
experience of seeing happens inside the brain, but the brain builds that
picture all around itself, from here to infinity.
Annotated bibliography of general semantics papers
General Semantics and Related Topics